Man is in custody for questioning in NYC bomb scare

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Sommer Brokaw

🚨UPDATEThe individual who the NYPD was looking for regarding the suspicious items in the Fulton Street subway station is now in custody. Thank you to everyone who shared tips, and to all of our law enforcement partners. https://t.co/3qh3uqOnk0

Griffin was seen pushing a shopping cart near Fulton Street subways station where two rice cookers were found during the bomb scare in Manhattan on Friday morning over the "suspicious items" which turned out to be rice cookers.

The third rice cooker was found in Chelsea, next to a trash can, and although investigation into whether all three were connected is ongoing, authorities said that all devices were the same make and model.

New York Police Department Police Chief Terence Monahan released surveillance photos of Griffin on Friday morning as police sought to question him "in regard to the suspicious items."

Griffin has been arrested by the sheriff's department at least three times within the past eight years, the post said. Charges range from possession of a controlled substance involving weapons to use of obscene material to seduce a minor. He was indicted in 2017 for the latter charge.

There is also currently an active warrant for his arrest that was issued in March due to his failure to report for missing drug screens as part of his pre-trial bond supervision.

His father, Larry Griffin, Sr., told WNBC his son was a panhandler in New York, and he had not seen his son in awhile, but would occasionally call him.

Griffin told family members he found three rice cookers in front of an Asian restaurant, relatives told police, and he only took them because he collects things he finds on the street.